And when he does a benchpress with his feet pushed against the real wall on the right, his doppelgänger appears to be standing up checking for damp on the wall on the left.
And New Yorkers, it turns out, are just as likely to be exasperated being toured by tourists unfamiliar with their local mores about tipping or standing in check-out lines, say, as the Achuar tribesmen of Ecuador are to be offended by tourists who sit on certain sacred rocks.
The offer is 20 years standing, with the check is three sealed messages written before the death of Houdini, Conan Doyle, and Edison.
If a Pride House had existed in 1992, Tewksbury said, he "probably would have been one of those people standing around to check everything out, see who was going in and out".
The primary messages were: apply insect repellent containing DEET; wear long sleeves and pants during dawn and dusk; eliminate repositories of standing water; and check and repair window screens.
Journalists see ourselves as honest brokers, professional nit-pickers, pursuing the business of fact-checking and accountability, standing as an institutional check on executive overreach.
I was deemed not too pregnant, though, to be left standing at a check-in counter for half an hour, while they checked my luggage off the plane and stared at me incredulously while tutting.
Otilia, standing at the check-in desk, might be a lover, wearily seeking refuge for a tryst.
Standing at the check-in counter, fumbling in my bag like a tourist idiot, I realized had lost my passport.
I'm standing in the check-in queue for Britain's first long-haul, no-frills flight to Asia, and they are handing out free booze.
